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The Fenn,s I remember from the early fifties ,was further up Nechells Park road next to Wimbushes the cake shop which was on the corner of Trevour St.Going towards the city there where a group of shops the cake shop,next Fenn,s or the greengrocers and then a grocery shop which sold butter from...

The souvenir booklet I have is from The Pageant of Birmingham ,at Aston Park from the 11th to the 16th of July 1938 .The pageant master was Gwen Lally.There were 8 episodes in the pageant and the participants are named but I can find no mention of a Lyndon.regards Polly.

I am looking for infomation on my great grandparents who owned a shop in Wharton st.up to about 1950 .Their surname was Gilks.My mother lived there till she married in 1946 and then moved to Malvern Hill road.In 1975 our house was knocked down mom moved to Brough Close and i left for Oz.For the...

ellie.you can search the australian electorial rolls from 1901 to 1936 plus ww1 medal rolls at ancestry.com.au.if you know the town he came from you can search the net for the local rsl club who have a roll of honour.

Night clubs in birmingham my favourite club was the Rum Runner I had a gold pass for it.My boy friend was abutcher at Walter Smiths in the bull ring .His mates all worked onthe fish or meat stalls and the girls would meet them after work in one of the pubs.Needless to say at the end of the...

Billy Robbins Nechells Baths Lynda ,Billy Robbins was a friend of my Dads and he also taught me to swim by chucking me in at the deep end.I also started at Bloomsbury Girls in 1962 and we would walk up Nechells Park Road all in line and try and pinch an apple from the fruit shop just down from...

looking for gilks family from1881 onwards .they lived in and around nechells .my great grand father william clarence gilks married louisa hunt .as louisa gilks she had a shop in wharton st nechells and i also believe one in long acre.

re ted kettle lucas dear lencops ,i do remember a tony ,did he play cricket or rugby for lucas?.i went alot with my dad to watch various lucas sporting teams.i also went with my uncle to pick up his car from shaftmoor lane when he died and a few men came out to see me and i think one of those...

re duddeston manor found it at last. i,ve searched all weekend for this.i have in front of me the booklet they gave us when they officially opened the school.it was officially opened by alderman mrs e.v.smith on saturday 3 july 1965 at 11am.it unofficially opened on 1 sept 1964 with 735 pupils...

foseco hi bee gee,thats right i married in australia but foseco sent us out for four years.i did spend some time in the coatings lab before i went.i still keep in touch with a few old foseco in uk.martin wardell frank lawerence till he died afew years ago,i still keep in touch with his...

re alf delaney hi barrie ,i worked with an alf delaney during the 1960,s .he run the furnaces in the experimental foundry at foseco in long acre nechells,if it,s the same man.polly

re ted kettle hi lencops me again, do you remember i think his name was doug day ,harold mew? and another friend of dads who had a son who was deaf and dumb.dad was involved with the lucas car club.did you ever go,we used to go to cannock chase for the rally and time trials.once a year we would...

re ted kettle hi lencops ,i do remember herman very well he visited our house a few times.i remember asking him how he got "over the wall" and he just laughed.one night we went out leaving the dog in the house,it was bonfire night and the dog chewed up the cushions on the settee.mom,aunty and...

doctor cooper doctor cooper lived on nechells park road at the top of needham st.his surgery was in the back in the old stables .i was told by my granmother who was born in holborn hill in 1887 and then married and lived till her death in 1965 in malvern hill road ,that was where the tram...

duddeston manor school I still have my report book from duddeston .I started in 3y form teacher was Mr Sharp. The report year is 1964/5 spring term and the report book had to be signed and returned at the recommencement of school feb 23 rd 1965.Before Duddeston i was at Bloomsbury Girls and...

ted kettle shaftsmoor lane many thanks johnny young for your info and all your time and trouble

ted kettle lucas shaftsmoor lane dear lencops thanks for the info.i was only 15 at the time and can not remember most of the details.i know it came to court in 1970 .i was an only child so i am trying to fill in all of my family history for my two sons both born in australia.thanks again...

lencops re ted kettle i do not know which section he worked in ,but it was a power press accident.

both my parents worked for joseph lucas,can any one remember them.my mom dolly kettle worked at plume st and then at gt hampton st . my dad worked at several of the lucas sites but was killed at work in dec 1966 at the shaftsmoor road site.